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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q What do you think of the curtailment of academy freedoms in the Bill? It has now been published, so you have seen it, albeit that you were not talked to before. What do you…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q What would that look like? Do you have to do a case review? Jacky Tiotto: As soon as that child becomes the subject of a concern, such that you might be making an application to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Is a number of weeks a potentially dangerous thing? Jacky Tiotto: For very young children when you are concerned, if they are still with the parents, which is sometimes the…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you recognise that sometimes a school can bring someone in who might be at a later point in their career and be highly specialised—perhaps a great sportsman, an IT person or…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Is there a major problem with schools employing teachers without qualified teacher status? Are non-QTS teachers not up to scratch? Would you regard it as a red flag if a school…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for coming. I have some short questions that do not need particularly long answers. Have you found evidence that academy schools are not teaching a broad and balanced…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q So if you had the power, you could get this Bill into exactly the way you would draft it. With lots of experience in this world, you would change it so that we moved this thing…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q David, welcome and thank you for joining us. I want to ask you first about the national curriculum and its imposition on all academy schools. We have heard about the use of that…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning and thank you for coming. Clause 1 states: “Before a local authority in England makes an application for an order” it has to “offer a family group decision-making…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)And others.21 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy constituents, particularly in Great Glen, have just experienced devastating flooding. Under the last Government, we opened up the flood recovery framework so that they could…20 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Government ReorganisationWe already knew that the Government wanted to abolish our local district and borough councils in Leicestershire without consulting local people. We now know that the proposal will…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Public Finances: Borrowing CostsI think that I heard the Chief Secretary say that the Chancellor has not gone to China. Will he confirm first that she is still planning to go? Secondly, if she has not gone to…09 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillOver the past 30 years we have had something that is quite unusual in politics: a degree of cross-party consensus about education in England. Schools in England have been improved…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am pressed for time, so I will see if I can get to the hon. Lady at the end. Our amendment is also the first opportunity that MPs will have during the Bill’s proceedings to vote…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Some people really do not want to hear the voices of the victims. [ Interruption. ] Even though no one in authority has been held to account, the…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am. On a happy note, I also got to see the best of state education. I went to an amazing sixth form that benefited from the freedoms that the Conservative Government gave it. I…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMany victims of the grooming gangs still do not feel that justice has been done. It is very concerning that the two men leading the Greater Manchester inquiry resigned because…06 Jan 2025HANSARD Hospice FundingOver 7,000 charities and voluntary groups have written an open letter to the Chancellor warning that the national insurance increase will cost them £1.4 billion and have a…19 Dec 2024HANSARD Creative Arts EducationWill the Minister give way?18 Dec 2024